E-SYSTEMS, INC. v. POGUE

Nos. 89-1707, 89-1709.

929 F.2d 1100 (1991)

E-SYSTEMS, INC. Group Hospital Medical & Surgical Insurance Plan, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. A.W. POGUE, Commissioner of the Texas State Board of Insurance, Defendant-Appellant. LA QUINTA MOTOR INNS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard F. REYNOLDS, as a Member of the Texas State Board of Insurance, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 1, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Storie, Marianne S. Dwight, David D. Menchaca, Asst. Attys. Gen., and Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

John F. Morehead and Paul D. Carmona, Bankston, Wright & Greenhill, Austin, Tex., for amicus.

Carl L. Taylor, Johnson & Gibbs, Washington, D.C., Richard W. Alexander, Johnson & Gibbs, Austin, Tex., for E-Systems, Inc. Group Hosp. Medical and Surgical Ins. Plan, et al.

Rick Harrison and Christina Carlson Dodds, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Austin, Tex., for La Quinta Motor Inns, Inc.

Before BROWN, POLITZ, and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.


POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

In these consolidated cases the district court found that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461, preempts the Texas Administrative Services Tax Act (ASTA), Tex.Ins.Code art. 4.11A, as it relates to ERISA plans, enjoined the collection of the tax, and directed a return of the monies wrongfully received therefrom. The State appeals, contending that the federal court lacked jurisdiction by virtue...

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